World Figure Skating Championships, ISU and Boston
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Ilia Malinin, the "Quad God" who won his second straight world championship on Saturday night, finished the show on Sunday with a performance that he said was dedicated to the plane crash victims. He came to the end, red-eyed and choking back tears.
The World Figure Skating Championships are in Boston, with the world’s best taking the ice for a step on the road to next year’s Olympics.
The ISU World Figure Skating Championships is coming to Boston and the event will also honor community members killed in a plane crash earlier this year.
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Alysa Liu became the first American women's figure skating world champion in nearly two decades Friday night, dethroning three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto with a brilliant free skate that earned her a standing ovation inside TD Garden.
Liu, 19, won gold at the world figure skating championships over the weekend in Boston, the first American women's singles skater to do since Kimmie Meissner in 2006. It’s pretty heady stuff for someone who retired from the sport in 2022 when she was only 16.